Analysis of If inspiration broke my heart



Greetings dear inspiration,

Where do you hail from today?

The trees in my soon-to-be green park?
Or from across the deep dark ocean with abundant sharks?

Or can I find you in the little places?

Dust gathered on my guitar,
the strong smell of vanilla from my sister’s cookie jar
I try to seek you but I don’t find you in the clichéd places like my lover’s car
I guess you’re my truest love because I never want you to hide anywhere too far
Today it rained and all my doubts found a finish
because I knew your arrival was due any minute
I waited and waited for you to appear
but surely you had plans to greet a distant pen peer
They say you only meet the unfortunate to give them some glory,
well, in that case, agony is the protagonist of my story

I’ll tell you what I’ve gathered about you from all our occasional dalliances-

I know you’re a melodious nomad, uncertainty your consistent chime
I know this fickleness affected many, but I hope I was your most memorable crime
Let me tell you a secret, I named you Jane
Because your advent is always abetted by pain
You make me drown in all my emotions and find the shipwrecked gold
After that, you leave me breathless and wanting more
I don’t understand you and now I’ve stopped trying to
Thank you for all you’ve done but I’m done waiting for you.


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Poetic Form
Metre 101010 1111101 010111111 11010111010101 11111001010 1101101 01110101110101 111111111100111011101 11111010111011111011 011101111010 01111010111010 11001011101 1101111101011 11110100100111110 10111001001001110 1111110011111001001 111001001010010101 11110001010111111110001 11110101111 01111101011 111101101001011 101111100101 110110111101 1111111111011
Closest metre Iambic heptameter
Characters 1,341
Words 268
Sentences 6
Stanzas 7
Stanza Lengths 1, 1, 2, 1, 10, 1, 8
Lines Amount 24
Letters per line (avg) 43
Words per line (avg) 10
Letters per stanza (avg) 146
Words per stanza (avg) 35

About this poem

As writers, we've all experienced how frustrating it is to find inspiration for our work. I wrote this poem re-imagining inspiration as a person or thing I could find easily before but not anymore. And now that it has broken my heart, I've moved on from always searching for it.

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Written on September 15, 2021

Submitted by mridvik on August 31, 2022

Modified on April 25, 2023

1:20 min read
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Mridvi Khetan

I am a college-going student currently completing a major in psychology and creative writing. Writing poetry and prose from different unnatural perspectives is my guilty pleasure (so is singing fusion Acappella in my uni!) I also run a personal blog on Instagram for all my poetic musings as well as music covers :) more…

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